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From: Timothy Watson <tmwatson@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 06:07:38 -0500
Organization: University of Michigan
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bill davidsen wrote:
> People who think {vi,emacs}+{groff,TeX} are a word processor should
> not quit their day job to sell UNIX word processing to the masses.
> The same is true for sc as a modern spreadsheet.
Let's not confuse Linux with the broader market. There's FrameMaker on
Solaris, and Interleaf.
Word STINKS once it has a few graphs in it...
-Tim Watson